Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 3 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 4 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 5 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 6 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 7 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 8 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 9 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
| 10 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 11 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |
| 12 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 13 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 14 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 15 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 16 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 17 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 18 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 19 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 20 | These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market . |
| 21 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 22 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 23 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 24 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 25 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 26 | BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey . |
| 27 | Analysis sheets ( Fig. 6.15 ) are written up from the duplicate copies of the bills . |
| 28 | Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths . |
| 29 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 30 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |